The European parliament is asking member states to grant Edward Snowden legal protection, calling him a "human rights defender." In a resolution that passed 285 to 281 on Thursday, parliament members called on EU member states to "drop any criminal c...

One of the consequences of the highly controversial Pirate Bay trial is a huge rise of support for Sweden's Pirate Party, which - according to the latest Demoskop poll - is now very close to getting at least one seat in the European Parliament. The P...

...and by randomly, I mean without a legal process. You may remember that the European Parliament (most notably, French socialist Guy Bono) has asked individual countries of the European Union to “avoid adopting measures conflicting with civil libert...

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